In following a perverted but clearly identifiable strain of Wahhabist Islam, these (and other) fanatics preach that purity and salvation lie in submission, not in choice. Choice is reserved for God.

As U.S. officials debate who should run Iraq after the war, one reality is the division between the two main branches of Islam, Shi’ite and Sunni. Dr. Phebe Marr, a historian and expert on Iraq, ...

It was never going to be easy to rebuild Iraq into a coherent nation and overcome quarrels among the two main branches of Islam -- Sunni and Shiite -- and the ethnically separate Kurds. The Pentagon ...

Why do they hate them? That is the question to ask in the wake of the slaughter of 53 people by Islamic suicide attackers in a mosque in Quetta, Pakistan, on July 4. This was no isolated local ...